Disable the 'Resize Window Grippers' in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

To remove those ugly resize handles you just have to add the following to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

THANKS: Patshead.com

Lexmark ripped me off

About a year ago I bought a Lexmark X2650 printer on  a store sale. When it came to replacing my ink cartridge I was in for a shock. Not only are the cartridges the same price as what I paid for the printer, which works out to R350, and thus very expensive, but there appears to be no solution to refilling the old cartridge which have a chip which tells the printer that the cartridge is empty.

As yet no way to reset the chip. I feel like trashing the printer and never buying Lexmark ever again. However I am quite happy with the scanner facility, so now I have a scanner minus the printer.  However, somebody really needs to tell the greedy developers at Lexmark, that not everybody lives on a first world salary, and the Gillette Shower blade model doesn't work if your income is below the median and somewhere in South of the Mississippi Delta.

Is Ubuntu use tailing off?

This google trends graph shows a slowdown in searches on the topic of Ubuntu. Reason for concern is the withdrawal of Adobe, who say that they will no longer be supporting the Linux version of the popular AIR platform, due to flat-line growth of the Linux desktop. Is this just another attempt to kill off Linux, or are we experiencing the impact of Android and other tablet platforms? The Community is going to have to come up with a lot more than a few lenses to maintain public interest. What can be done to save Desktop Linux from itself? Your comments on a postcard please. Just kidding, you can comment below.

Open Source 3D printer

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5202148[/vimeo]

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.indiegogo.com/eMAKER-Huxley-3D-printer-kits

gdiskdump, GUI for DD

Gdiskdump is a graphical interface to the excellent and powerful application for console called diskdump (dd) allows you to clone and make images of partitions and hard disks.

Download deb from here



THANKS: Ubuntips

Grooveshark client

The Desktop Client can be downloaded here. It isn't as updated as the web version of Grooveshark yet, but we're working on it. To get the application going:

1. Download the latest version of Adobe AIR.

2. Download the desktop client by clicking on the link above.

3. Profit.

Webian Shell Browser

Webian is the future of browsers. The latest release version 0.1 is a great addition to cross-platform browsing. Hopefully the project will iron out some of the problems connecting to google services and avoid the tendency of other projects to rely on pop-up windows. The Webian Experience is often interrupted by the disappearance of tabbed browsing as google windows start popping up and demanding a standard browser. Worth the effort to download and peruse the great full screen interface that "don't need a desktop"

http://webian.org/shell/download/